Director Tony Scott, happy with the success of his thriller "Deja Vu" in theatres this week, has revealed some surprising plans for his proposed remake of the Walter Hill-directed 1979 classic "The Warriors".

Speaking exclusively to Empire Online, Scott confirmed his version on the tale of a group of teenage hoods battling their way home across enemy turf will move its location from New York to Los Angeles.

"New York is visually vertical and L.A. is more horizontal so that'll be a big visual difference... what I'm doing is kind of reinventing it. And rather than a gang it's going to be 30 guys who take on 3,000. It's Kingdom Of Heaven meets The Warriors. We're going to use the L.A. River bed as a major location" says Scott.

In fact the director has gone to great lengths for the film's biggest sequence - "I've been meeting all the [real] gang leaders, they're saying they'll sign this treaty for the duration of the shoot. I want this shot of 50,000 real gang members all on Long Beach - The Crips, The Bloods, the Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the 18th Street gang, all there. It's going to be cool".